Sentences with phrase «ulcer patients»

Except they couldn't explain how he successfully treated scores of long suffering ulcer patients with a common antibacterial medication.

In some cases, ulcer patients may have less discomfort by reducing the amounts of black pepper, garlic, and chili powder used in their meals or at the table.

In a study of 160 ulcer patients published in Helicobacter, this pair of antioxidant, disease - fighting nutrients proved their worth as an integrative therapy for H. pylori.

In the past, ulcer patients underwent stomach operations or took medicines for life, he says; thanks to Warren and Marshall, a simple course of antibiotics is often enough to cure them completely.

For years an obscure doctor hailing from Australia's hardscrabble west coast watched in horror as ulcer patients fell so ill that many had their stomach removed or bled until they died.

Biopsying ulcer patients and culturing the organisms in the lab, Marshall traced not just ulcers but also stomach cancer to this gut infection.

In 1994, doctors in Tennessee treated an ulcer patient who was infected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

I couldn't refrain from commenting on the ulcer story both as doctor and as an ulcer patient.

Not exact matches

Francis of Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time.

For every 11 patients with H. pylori who are treated with antibiotics, 10 are cured of their peptic ulcer.

The James Lind Alliance have worked with clinicians and patients in this way to identify priorities for research on specific conditions, such as pressure ulcers, alcohol liver related disease, epilepsy and asthma.

The study excluded patients who had osteoporosis, those with planned or recent invasive dental procedures, active peptic ulcer disease or recent history of GI bleed, and pregnant or breastfeeding women.

A new high - tech but simple ointment applied to the skin may one day help diabetic patients heal stubborn and painful ulcers on their feet, Northwestern University researchers report.

Decubitus ulcers are pressure ulcers that occur when the patient lies on his or her back for long periods

In the eyes, reduced levels of substance P might contribute to poor wound healing and the development of corneal ulcers in patients with diabetes.

The deregulation of several of these genes in patients with chronic ulcers, suggest that defects in the formation and / or function of these two different structures may induce defect of wound - healing leading to chronic ulcer formation.

Tear samples from patients with diabetes show elevated levels of substance P, which are related to early damage to the corneal nerves, which may contribute to the development of corneal ulcers and poor wound healing in patients with diabetes, according to the pilot study by Maria Markoulli, PhD, MOptom, FAAO, and colleagues of University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

To address the complexity of the biologic pathways that create and respond to pressure sore development, the researchers designed a computational, or «in silico,» model of the process based on serial photographs of developing ulcers from spinal cord - injured patients enrolled in studies at Pitt's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Spinal Cord Injury.

Pressure ulcers affect more than 2.5 million Americans annually and patients who have spinal cord injuries that impair movement are more vulnerable to developing them, said senior investigator Yoram Vodovotz, Ph.D., professor of surgery and director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling at the Pitt School of Medicine.

Doctors also give PPIs to hospital patients who have serious injuries to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding and stress ulcers.

Atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and chronic venous leg ulcers — typically caused by diabetes or varicose veins — can cause patients years of suffering.

The patient was under 50 years old, and Marjolin's ulcer is extremely rare in people who are young and otherwise healthy.

Job satisfaction is an important predictor of registered nurses» (RNs) job turnover, patient satisfaction, and nurse - sensitive patient outcomes (including pressure ulcers and falls), which can result in higher health care costs and penalties for hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid payments.

Between 19 and 34 percent of patients with diabetes develop chronic foot ulcers, the presence of which significantly increases their risk of death compared with patients without foot ulcers.

Patients with diabetes are at risk of developing chronic wounds, particularly foot ulcers, because of two complications of the illness.

«While more work is required to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms through which B cells exert their beneficial function in wound healing, we are in the process of obtaining the required regulatory approvals to conduct a first clinical study in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Smaller concentrations of gastric acid and thus fewer patients with gastric ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, director of the MGH - VIC and senior author of the Wound Repair and Regeneration report adds, «Having a novel therapeutic that is based on the immediate isolation of a patient's own cells, with minimal manipulation, will represent an attractive option for the wound care field; and a successful option that accelerates healing would greatly benefit patients, as diabetic ulcers typically need up to a year or more heal.

Because if it were current generating — electrogenic — like the sodium - potassium pump, it would produce less acid in the stomach for the benefit of patients with gastric ulcers.

Eyal Oren, UA assistant professor of epidemiology and one of the senior authors of the study, says that most physicians followed the guidelines for testing patients they suspected of having H. pylori infection when the patients came to them with likely risk factors, such as a previously diagnosed peptic ulcer or dyspepsia.

Both gastritis and peptic ulcer disease are treated with antibiotics; treatments that often require two to three different kinds of antibiotics and still do not cure all patients.

Robin Warren, the hospital pathologist, said he had been seeing these bacteria on biopsies of ulcer and stomach cancer patients for two years, and they were all identical.

Infants born prematurely are at a significantly increased risk for pressure ulcers, yet nurses at Loyola University Health System have been able to eliminate this threat for patients in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.

For those suffering the debilitating impact of colitis, accelerating tissue growth could heal colon ulcers more quickly, which in turn could allow patients to take lower dosages of other medications that treat colitis — some of which have serious side effects.

The weird thing was that if they treated 100 patients with this drug, 30 of them never got their ulcer back, whereas if you stopped Tagamet, 100 percent would get their ulcer back in the next 12 months.

Treated, most patients didn't die from their ulcer and didn't need surgery, so it was worth $ 100 a month per patient, a hell of a lot of money in those days.

«This program allowed our nurses to more easily recognize at - risk patients and implement interventions earlier to prevent pressure ulcers and subsequent complications.»

«Our nurses recognized the serious threat pressure ulcers pose to infants and implemented a program to protect the delicate skin of our youngest patients.»

By 1985 I could cure just about everybody, and patients were coming to me in secret — for instance, airline pilots who didn't want to let anyone know that they had an ulcer.

The results of a study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed for the first time an association between a specific genetic pathway and the development of mouth ulcers in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).

So far, the studies of diabetic ulcers and rheumatoid arthritis mentioned above are the only methods to show evidence of clinical effectiveness in human patients.

Intervention patients experienced more postextubation stridor (an abnormal sound made when the breathing passages are narrowed; 7 percent vs 4 percent) and fewer stage 2 or worse immobility - related pressure ulcers (< 1 percent vs 2 percent).

A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that lower levels of vitamin D in the blood increase the risk of clinical relapse in patients with Ulcerative Colitis (UC), an inflammatory bowel disease that causes long - lasting inflammation and ulcers in the colon.

That's because the compounds have been used to treat peptic ulcers, and there is no indication of finger abnormalities in these patients, he notes.

BETHESDA, Md. (Nov. 15, 2012)-- Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for diabetics and are the cause of more than 80 percent of the lower leg amputations in these patients.

Amputations and foot ulcers in patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus and observed for 19 years.

Therapy With Autologous Adipose - Derived Regenerative Cells for the Care of Chronic Ulcer of Lower Limbs in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease (March 20, 2013) in Journal of Surgical Research.

Subsequent exposure to ultraviolet light and crosslinking relieved the patients» pain, improved their vision and resolved the ulcers.

The researchers isolated two related but genetically diverse strains of H. pylori from a 90 - year - old patient with gastric ulcer disease.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified a protein that could aid development of methods to grow new skin to treat patients with burns or skin ulcers.